The Sound and the Fury: Meet Gary Faulkner, Rogue bin Laden Hunter

Gary Faulkner is a gentleman who armed himself with a sword, a pair of night-vision goggles, a gun, and some religious books and went off to Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. (It’s what we all would do if we had access to swords, night-vision goggles, guns, and religious books, probably.) Faulkner has attempted to slay bin Laden seven (7) times. On his most recently odyssey, earlier this month, he was arrested and shipped home to the U.S. “You could say I'm a religious freak, you could say I'm a Rambo or a samurai or whatever, but you know what? I'm a person who said I'm going to get off my ass and do something,” he told CNN.He had kind words to say about the Pakistani people, who helped him “bounce around from place to place” after his “cover got blown.” He had less kind words to say about all the skeptics (i.e., haters!) who doubt the necessity, sanity, or usefulness of his self-assigned mission. “There’s people out there talking smack, saying, ‘He’s crazy,’ or this or that,” he shouted, perceptibly agitated. “Those are the people sitting on their asses talking shit.” Funny, it’s more Palahniuk than Faulkner.